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B-283889 1 (2000-01-13)

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                                                                 of the United States
United States General Accounting Office
Washington, DC 20548



         Decision


         Matter of: Valenzuela Engineering, hie.

         File:      B-283889

         Date:      January 13, 2000


         Jerry H. Valenzuela for the protester.
         Daniel J. Dykstra, Jr., Esq., Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, for the
         agency.
         Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
         GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
         DIGEST

         Selection of technically superior, higher-priced proposal is unobjectionable where
         the solicitation made technical considerations more important than price and the
         agency reasonably concluded that the technical superiority of the awardee
         warranted payment of the associated price premium.
         DECISION

         Valenzuela Engineering, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Clayton
         Environmental Consultants (CEC) under request for proposals (RFP) No. DACA05-
         99-R-0041, issued by the Army Corps of Engineers for the operation and maintenance
         of certain groundwater treatment systems located at the Los Alamito s Air Force
         Reserve Center in Orange County, California. Valenzuela principally challenges the
         source selection decision.

         We deny the protest.

         The solicitation, issued April 29, 1999, contemplated the award of a fixed-price
         contract to provide preventive maintenance, calibration, servicing, corrective
         repairs, sampling and analysis, and engineering services for the groundwater
         treatment systems at Los Alamitos Air Force Reserve Center. RFP § B. The
         solicitation provided for award to the offeror whose proposal represented the best
         value to the government based on technical merit, price/cost and other pertinent
         factors. RFP § M.2. The RFP technical evaluation criteria, listed in descending order
         of importance, consisted of operation and maintenance, engineering services, key

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